Lenny Krayzelburg, Natalie Coughlin and Amanda Beard
won their races as Americans dominated on the final day of the Janet
Evans Invitational on Sunday night.

The four-day meet was a tuneup for next month's U.S.
Olympic trials to be held in the same above-ground pool built on a
parking lot along the Long Beach shoreline.

Jenny Thompson, who will try to make her fourth Olympic
team at age 31, was third in the 100 butterfly.

Krayzelburg won the 100-meter backstroke in 55.28
seconds — well off his nearly 5-year-old world record.

"I wanted to go a little faster," said
Krayzelburg, the defending Olympic champion. "It's a good statement
race. The last couple of races I was starting to tighten up a bit.
This time I felt pretty comfortable, maybe because we're starting
to come down in intensity."

Randall Bal, expected to challenge Krayzelburg at
the trials, was second in 55.61. His arm hit the lane line coming
down the stretch, something that happens frequently.

"If you hit it, you have to keep chugging along.
They're brutal when you hit them. You feel it," he said.

Jeff Rouse, the 1996 Olympic champion attempting
a comeback at 34, was seventh in the eight-man field.

Coughlin earned her third victory of the meet, taking
the 100 backstroke in 1:00.80. She also swept the 100 and 200 freestyles.

"I was hoping to be slightly faster," she
said. "I'm not too worried. I'm just going to rest up and get
ready for trials. I was surprised at how good my freestyles felt.
I've been working on technical aspects of the stroke and they really
came together better than I thought they would."

Australian Ian Thorpe swam the backstroke leg of
the 400 medley relay after the Aussies were short a swimmer. Thorpe,
who won the 200 and 400 freestyles and was second in the 100 free,
completed his 100 meters in 56.13 and touched ahead of Auburn backstroker
Bryce Hunt. But the Aussies finished second to Auburn's team.

Thorpe rarely swims backstroke and he didn't show
any enthusiasm for adding it to his repertoire. "It's not doing
it for me at the moment," he said.

Beard, the darling of the 1996 Olympics, won the
200 individual medley in 2:15.22.

"It was exhausting, it was tough," she
said. "I'm happy with the effort I put in, but not really happy
with my time. Every win builds your confidence up, but doesn't mean
you're going to make the Olympic team."

Beard has been romantically linked in the Australian
media with Thorpe. She was part of a group of American swimmers who
visited Las Vegas last month when Thorpe and his teammates were there
after high-altitude training in Arizona.

But she denied a romance with her fellow Olympic
gold medalist. Thorpe on Saturday brushed off rumors of a quickie
Vegas wedding with Beard.

"I've ruled out boys for the summer," she
said.

Australian Petria Thomas was the only foreign winner
Sunday, taking the 100 butterfly in 58.56 against a strong field,
some of whom are likely to be in the Athens Olympics. Martina Moravcova
of Slovakia was second in 58.75 and Thompson was third in 59.21. They
were the only women to swim under one minute.

"I wanted to go faster," Thompson said.
"It was a great opportunity to race Petria and Martina. I'm on
track to start resting now and be ready for trials. I am on course
to go faster than I ever have."

Misty Hyman was disqualified for staying underwater
too long after the start. Hyman used to stay under for the first 30
meters before her technique was outlawed in 1998.

"I did that on purpose, for old times' sake,"
she said, laughing. "I would've gotten beat either way."

Ed Moses, a 2000 Olympian, was fourth in the 100 breaststroke.

Kalyn Keller won the 1,500 freestyle in a meet record
16:19.34, and Erik Vendt won the men's mile in 15:11.19.

Eric Shanteau won the 200 individual medley in a meet
record 2:02.44; Michael Cavic won the 100 butterfly in 53.95; Tara
Kirk completed a sweep of the breaststroke events by winning the 200
in 1:08.50; and Mark Gangloff won the 100 breaststroke in a meet record
1:02.34.